Results for: books tagged ‘Faber Firsts’
Cover Her Face: P. D. James
AN ADAM DALGLIESH MYSTERY St Cedd's Church fête has been held in the grounds of Martingale manor house for generations. As if organizing stalls, as well as presiding over luncheon, ... More
Bliss: Peter Carey
The first novel by Peter Carey, published originally in 1981. For thirty-nine years Harry Joy has been the quintessential good guy. But one morning Harry has a heart attack in ... More
The White Castle: Orhan Pamuk
The first novel to appear in English by Nobel Prize-winning Orhan Pamuk, originally published in 1990.A young Italian scholar is captured by pirates in Italy and put up for auction ... More
The Bell Jar: Sylvia Plath
The first and only novel by Sylvia Plath, originally published in 1963. When Esther Greenwood wins an internship on a New York fashion magazine in 1953, she is elated, believing ... More
Such a Long Journey: Rohinton Mistry
Such a Long Journey is set in Bombay against the backdrop of war in the Indian subcontinent and the birth of Bangladesh, telling the story of the peculiar way in ... More
The Barracks: John McGahern
The first novel by John McGahern, originally published in 1963. Elizabeth Regan, after years of freedom - and loneliness - marries into the enclosed Irish village of her upbringing. The ... More
The Buddha of Suburbia: Hanif Kureishi
The Buddha of Suburbia, Hanif Kureishi's first novel, is a tour de force of comic invention, a bizarre, often hilarious, and totally original picture of the life of a young ... More
The New York Trilogy: Paul Auster
The New York Trilogy is an astonishing and original book: three cleverly interconnected novels that exploit the elements of standard detective fiction and achieve a new genre that is all ... More
Lord of the Flies: William Golding
Martin Jarvis reads William Golding's classic novel in a major new unabridged recording. More
A Pale View of Hills: Kazuo Ishiguro
The first novel by Kazuo Ishiguro, originally published in 1982, in a new paperback edition. More